Лучшие книги Майклу Дибдину

Погибла жена немолодого журналиста-англичанина, живущего в Америке, и он отправляется в Неваду — встретиться с ее первым мужем… Зачем? Почему? Человек, одержимый горем, попросту не знает этого — потому что существует отныне в странном мире на грани вероятного и невероятного. Человек, одержимый горем, ХОЧЕТ ГОВОРИТЬ… Так начинается эта тончайшая, изысканнейшая история, в которой основное место принадлежит ВНУТРЕННЕМУ МОНОЛОГУ. Монологу человека в ЭКСТРЕМАЛЬНЫХ ОБСТОЯТЕЛЬСТВАХ. Монологу, обнажающему подлинные глубины человеческой психологии…

This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students.
Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence.
Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension.
Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension.
Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words.

Данная серия представляет профессионально подобранную библиотеку для подростков и старшеклассников, куда включены адаптированные версии классической и современной литературы, а также истории из реальной жизни. Серию отличает четкая уровневая система, обеспечивающая понимание содержания учащимися соответствующих уровней владения английским языком.
Отличительные характеристики серии: - 10 страниц различных упражнений для развития умений чтения: задания до чтения текста, подготавливающие учащихся к чтению; упражнения по ходу чтения, поддерживающие интерес к чтению; послетекстовые задания на понимание содержания и обсуждение прочитанного; - Информация об авторе; - Популярные истории, превращающие чтение в удовольствие; - Истории, специально написанные для Oxford Bookworms Library для начинающих изучение английского языка, и адаптации известнейших произведений классических и современных писателей для владеющих языком на более высоком уровне с учетом разноуровневой лингвистической компетенции; - Более 50 наименований в комплекте с аудиокассетами.
В данную серию также входят: Oxford Bookworms Library Teacher's Handbooks - методическое пособие для преподавателей по использованию серии Oxford Bookworms Library, включающее ответы к заданиям, разрешенные для ксерокопирования тесты и ключи к ним.
Oxford Bookworms Library Activity Worksheets - содержат дополнительные материалы для уровней 1-4.

Первый труп найден в пещере в Итальянских Альпах…
Второй обнаруживается во взорванной машине… Затем смертей становится больше…
За расследование берется опытнейший полицейский сыщик Аурелио Дзен. Кто-то методично убирает всех причастных к "Операции Медуза"…
Что стоит за этой "операцией" - заговор военных, ведущий на самый верх итальянского общества, или что-то другое?
Ценой немалого риска Дзен доискивается до истины, и она, при всей своей неожиданности, оказывается старой как мир…

Inspector Zen finally receives the order he has been dreading all his professional life: his next posting is to Sicily. The gruesome discovery of an unidentified, decomposed corpse sealed in a railway wagon on a disused siding marks the beginning of Zen's most difficult and dangerous case.

'A nasty, original, murderously funny entertainment.' Independent

Dennis and Karen lead a nice life in North Oxford until the day one of their dinner guests seduces Karen in the kitchen, setting in motion a chain of events which will destroy the thin veneer of their respectability and lead to ruthless murder.

Dirty Tricks is a gripping and brilliant thriller set in contemporary Oxford, an unputdownable story in which the conventions of sex and violence have never been more satisfyingly explored.

'At once a suspense story and a bitingly drawn, often savagely comic, picture of the way we live now. Dibdin has never put in a better performance.' Guardian

Inspector Zen has a problem: an impossible murder, recorded on the closed-circuit video of Oscar Burolo's top-security Sardinian fortress. As Zen gets to work, he is once again plunged into a menacing and violent world where his own life is soon at risk.

Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen has crossed swords with the establishment before - and lost. From the depths of a mundane desk job in Rome he is unexpectedly transferred to Perugia to take over a kidnapping case involving one of Italy's most powerful families. Gold Dagger Award winner.

When, one dark night in November, Prince Ludovico Ruspanti fell a hundred and fifty feet to his death in the chapel at St Peter's, Rome, there were a number of questions to be answered. Inspector Aurelio Zen finds that getting the answers isn't easy, as witness after witness is mysteriously silenced - by violent death. To crack the secret of the Vatican, Zen must penetrate the most secret place of all: the Cabal.

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Young Bostonian Robert Booth manoeuvres an entree into the Florentine residence of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. When Mr Browning is called away, Booth follows him - and is brought to the village of his childhood sweetheart, who is now hanging by the neck from a tree in the garden.

Turning to the window, Zen eyed his spectral other, so smugly solid and substantial. He felt as if he were the reflection and that image the original. 'A Shadow of his former self,' as the stock phrase went. A hopeless invalid. A sad case.
When the corpse of the shady industrialist who owns the local football team is found both shot and stabbed, Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen is called to Bologna to oversee the investigation. Recovering slowly from surgery, and fleeing an equally painful crisis in his personal life, Zen is only too happy to take on what at first appears to be a routine and relatively undemanding assignment.
But soon a world-famous university professor is shot with the same gun, and the case threatens to spin out of control...

After his adventures in Cosi Fan Tutti, Aurelio Zen finds himself back in Rome, sneezing in a damp wine cellar and being given another unorthodox assignment - to release the jailed scion of an important wine-growing family.

What is it that binds together a series of violent murders across America and the long-lost Secret of the Templars?

The killings always take place in the home, usually in broad daylight, in towns and cities all over America. The victims are of every age and background; they have been bound and gagged and shot in the head at close range. The crimes appear to be random and motiveless and no one has claimed responsibility.

So what connects the killings to an obscure religious sect operating from an island in the Pacific North-West? And what clues lie hidden in the Secret of the Templars?

If you enjoyed Dark Spectre you may also like Dirty Tricks , also by Michael Dibdin.

Among the emerging generation of crime writers, none is as stylish and intelligent as Michael Dibdin, who, in Dead Lagoon, gives us a deliciously creepy new novel featuring the urbane and skeptical Aurelio Zen, a detective whose unenviable task it is to combat crime in a country where today's superiors may be tomorrow's defendants.Zen returns to his native Venice. He is searching for the ghostly tormentors of a half-demented contessa and a vanished American millionaire whose family is paying Zen under the table to determine his whereabouts-dead or alive. But he keeps stumbling over corpses that are distressingly concrete: from the crooked cop found drowned in one of the city's noisome "black wells" to a brand-new skeleton that surfaces on the Isle of the Dead. The result is a mystery rich in character and deduction, and intensely informed about the history, politics, and manners of its Venetian setting.